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    1. Help with Berwickshire place names please
    2. Valerie/Rowan Henshaw
    3. Thanks to the wonderfully kind Janice Poskitt who offered her time and search effort while borrowing the LDS 1861 and 1871 census films, I now have various family members at a number of new locations. Can any knowledgeable listers help me with any of the following places : 1) - 1871 Parish of Earlston Dist 3, pg 16, schedule 62 - Park Hind's Cottage Thomas CHISHOLM Head mar 57 Land Steward b BEW Gordon and his family Thomas occupied the hind's cottage, but what was the Park? 2) - 1871 Census Coldstream Dist 2, pg 33 - Dove Cot 3 Margaret SIMPSON aunt unm 58 formerly housekeeper b ROX Sprouston Would this be a row of cottages in the town of Coldstream? 3) - 1871 Census Edrom Dist 3, pg 4 - Mungoswalls Cottage Alexander FAIRLEY head mar 65 ag lab b BEW Whitsome Was Mungoswalls a farm or estate, or a street or area, or was it just the name of a cottage in Edrom? 4) - 1871 Census Gordon dist 3, pg 4 - Byrewalls James CHISHOLM head mar 40 ag lab b BEW Earlston Again, was Byrewalls a farm or estate? 5) - 1871 Census Ledgerwood dist 2, pg 11 - Birkenside Andrew CHISHOLM head unm 42 ag lab b BEW Earlston Was Birkenside a farm or estate? 6) - 1861 Census Edrom dist 3, pg 13 - Sinclairshill Village Alexander FAIRLEY head mar 52 ploughman b BEW Whitsome Does Sinclairshill Village still exist? 7) - 1861 Census Earlston dist 2, pg 15 - Millerstain Row of Cottages Benjamin CHISHOLM head mar 73 no occupation b BEW Ledgerwood Any information on any of the above places and whether they still exist would be most gratefully appreciated. I do have the one-inch maps Victorian Ordnance Survey Maps of Scotland No. 25 Kelso & Melrose (which includes Earlston and Gordon), No 26 Berwick-upon-Tweed (which includes Coldstream), and No 33 Haddington. Many thanks and Easter greetings, Valerie Henshaw Melbourne, Australia

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